The angry Australian animal Australians are actually scared of

Mashable ^ | 9/30

[Veggie Todd]

Maybe a dingo ate your baby.

[pepsi_junkie]

I dunno, I was in Australia is their spring and I went to dinner with a couple of aussies in an outdoor cafe that had trees full of magpies and cockatoos and nobody batted an eye, much less expressed any hesitation with being around them.

[Rebelbase]

Scottish reporter handles a Drop Bear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwU7Oq_1sL0&ab_channel=ThePineappleExpress

[cll]

We have a tiny bird we call Pitirre (a Gray kingbird) that takes on hawks in the air (and almost always wins) and people on the ground if you get too close to their nests. People will usually scatter in their presence.

[The Antiyuppie]

ANYBODY should be scared of the cassowary. I spoke to a zookeeper at a zoo and he said that the bird was the only creature there that he was actually afraid of, even if caged or he was padded.

[naturalman1975]

I dunno, I was in Australia is their spring and I went to dinner with a couple of aussies in an outdoor cafe that had trees full of magpies and cockatoos and nobody batted an eye, much less expressed any hesitation with being around them.

That's because you were sitting still. Magpies rarely swoop people who aren't moving.

The article is pretty accurate - while Magpies aren't the most dangerous animals in Australia, they are much more likely to attack you than most more dangerous animals. That's what makes people very wary of them - snakes, spiders, crocs - for the most part you can avoid them. Magpies come after you.

[DoodleBob]

Rest assuredly, that critter will feast on your cuteness-overloaded corpse.

[Viking2002]

They’re the nastiest. I once saw a blue jay cow a cat so badly, the poor sucker had to slink on it’s belly under a car and disappear down a storm drain to get away from it. Blue jays have bad dispositions and no sense of fear.